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In recent years, I've switched to a Haskell style that is much more "separator-ful". I chain my computations together using the `&`, `<&>` and `>>=` operators. These operators are flipped function application, flipped fmap, and bind.

They are all declared as left-associative with precedence 1, which means that they read left-to-right. i.e: they're the separators, so you don't need extra parenthesis.

So you can have something like:

  employees database
  <&> salary
  & sum
  & writeReport title
  >>= sendReport destination
This lets you read your data processing pipe-line, while also seeing what kind of effects are being composed together at each step.


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